Tectonics

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What do 2 continental plates form?
Mountains
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What do 2 oceanic plates form?
Volcanic Islands
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What does an oceanic and a continental plate form?
Volcanoes
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An example of a volcano
Mount St.Helens
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What is the deepest part of the ocean?
Trench
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What is it called when an oceanic plate goes under a continental plate
Subduction zone
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What do divergent plates form?
Valleys
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What are the layers that divergent plates form?
Crust
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What measures the magnitude?
Richter Scale
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What measures the effects on people?
Mercalli Scale
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What is the strength of an earthquake?
Magnitude
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What is directly above the focus?
epicentre
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What is the word for when plates move past each other?
fault
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What plate margin does volcanoes not occur in?
Conservative
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What is it when magma can slip through think crust to form volcanoes?
Hotspots
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An example of a volcano

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What is the deepest part of the ocean?

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